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2nd grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa social studies task cards
Community Signs Skill Pack Leveled for Special Education - Life Skills
Do your students need a high level of varied practice in order to learn community signs? This community signs skill pack will help your students progress from identifying a sign to understanding what the community signs mean. Being able to identify and understand community signs is a crucial life skill. These activities help students recognize and understand the meaning of the different signs.This life skills and social studies set is already differentiated for you. There are 3 levels included t
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K - 12th
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Global Communities Workbook (Grade 2 Social Studies)
This workbook covers the Grade 2 Global Communities unit in the NEW 2023 Ontario Social Studies curriculum (People and Environments).It covers various topics such as map skills, continents, oceans, and the equator. It further explores Canada, comparing climate, wildlife, natural features, homes, and recreation. It includes information on specific Canadian communities in Ontario, Yukon, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia, including a contemporary FNMI community (Saugeen First Nation). The workbook
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2nd
Also included in: Grade 2 Ontario Social Studies Workbook Bundle
STEM Activities - Student Passport around the World
Complete STEM activities based on a famous landmarks AROUND the WORLD! Students travel through Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Egypt and America earning passport stamps as they complete their challenges. This is a fantastic resource for team building activities. Click HERE to SAVE over 20% with our Travel the World STEM Bundle.These task cards allow flexibility with the teacher to either grab and go or build further lessons around each challenge. They lend themselves to Geography, Sci
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2nd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: WORLD CONTINENTS STEM Activities and Challenges Travel Passport
Gingerbread Theme Day Holiday Christmas Activities
Are you trying to find a way to keep your student's engaged and learning with all of the holiday excitement? Themed days may be just for you. During Gingerbread Day, you can read your choice of suggested Gingerbread stories and complete the reading comprehension activities included. There is a letter to send home, a banner, craft activities, stem challenge, and more. You could run centers for the day or complete the activities together. The choices are endless. There is a gingerbread house and
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Winter & Holiday Christmas Theme Day Activities 12 Days of Christmas
Holiday Hashtag Blocks Challenge Cards / Christmas & Winter STEM / Student Gifts
The following holiday challenge cards and gift tags are perfect for student gifts and are designed to accompany “Hashtag” building blocks, found seasonally in Target Dollar Spot.Students may complete the challenge cards independently or with partners, or you may choose to make copies and give them as holiday gifts to your students.Includes smaller cards for individual student use and larger cards for classroom use.To complete the Hashtag Block challenge cards, students will only need about 30 bl
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PreK - 6th
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Christmas Task Cards: 9 Ugly Sweater Presents
These Christmas activities will keep your kids engaged and working! Children read descriptive paragraphs that describe a Christmas ugly sweater. Children then color the Christmas ugly sweaters to match the adjective filled descriptions. Children can scan the QR codes to reveal the colored version to see how close they got! This resource now includes a "Digital Christmas UGLY SWEATER" read and self-check activity. You will still need to print the coloring pages that match from the PDF but I h
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2nd - 4th
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Place Value Elves | Christmas Math Activity and Christmas Bulletin Board Craft
Place value practice, Christmas Elf style! This Christmas math activity will engage your students in practice of counting base ten blocks to determine the total number. This Elf place value activity can be used as individual, small group and whole class work. Perfect for math centers or math morning work, too!This is the TENS & ONES version! Looking for our HUNDREDS, TENS & ONES version? CLICK HERE!Included in this resource:16 place value elf task cards (base ten blocks represented ar
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1st - 2nd
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Reindeer Day Holiday Christmas Activities
Are you trying to find a way to keep your student's engaged and learning with all of the holiday excitement? Themed days may be just for you. During Reindeer Day, you can read your choice of suggested reindeer stories and complete the reading comprehension activities included. There is a letter to send home, a special snack, a door banner and more. You could run centers for the day or complete the activities together. The choices are endless. There is a reindeer craft activity, writing activitie
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Winter & Holiday Christmas Theme Day Activities 12 Days of Christmas
Biography Card Bundle (Daily Routine)
This bundle includes resources to help you incorporate under-represented history into your classroom without having to give up lesson time needed to cover the curriculum. These biography profile cards can be used in 5 minutes a day and will introduce students to 30-42 people a month, not to mention create thoughtful discussion and reflection based on the challenge question cards included.Unfortunately, our curriculum doesn't feature many black and brown faces, or many women. Electing to erase th
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K - 8th
Christmas Social Skills
The Christmas Pragmatics Packet is 24 pages and includes activities for problem solving, judging social comments, initiating conversations, giving & receiving gifts, sustaining conversation and a set of conversation starters.Social Problem Solving (20 cards) Each card contains a social situation that could take place at Christmas. Determine what you should do. Naughty or Nice? (18 cards) Read the comments and determine if those comments would land you on the naughty or nice list!Social Narra
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Christmas MEGA Bundle: Elementary Materials for Speech Therapy
Maker Space Task Cards (Christmas Edition)
Maker Space Task Cards: Bits & Pieces. This is a great pack for teachers just starting out with hands-on STEM, STEAM or Maker Space. These task cards are perfect for a mobile makerspace or media center. Place the cards in a tub with the materials and let students create! All of these task cards have a Christmas theme!
This is also included in a Bundle! Maker Space Task Cards Holiday Bundle
Also included in the bundle:
☞ St. Patrick's Day Maker Space Task Cards
☞ Thanksgiving Maker Space
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Maker Space Task Card Bundle Holiday Edition
Map Skills and Directions BOOM CARDS™ Distance Learning | Reading a Map
This set is a great way to review cardinal directions and reading a map! This deck reviews north, south, east, west, and skills that primary students need to know when looking at a map. This set is geared toward first grade or second grade students! There are 52 slides in this deck. This set randomizes to play 20 cards at a time. So, each time your students play, they will get a new set of cards! The first 2 will stay consistent though (clicking on the map key and compass rose). This
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: 1st and 2nd Grade SOCIAL STUDIES Boom Cards™ BUNDLE Distance Learning
Types of Communities │Rural, Urban, & Suburban
This is the perfect bundle to use when teaching your students about the different types of communities (rural, suburban, and urban)! Your students will enjoy these hands on activities and task cards, which are great to use in centers. Posters are also provided for your students to refer to. Included in this bundle:-"What is a Community" Poster-Rural Communities Poster-Urban Communities Poster-Suburban Communities Poster-Rural, Urban, and Suburban Picture Cards (1 page each, 4 images to a page)-R
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K - 6th
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Map Skills - First Grade Mapping - Social Studies - Google Slides™
Teaching beginning map skills to 1st graders is always a lot of fun! Students love learning about maps, compass roses, cardinal directions, and map keys! This interactive Google Slides™ unit is a perfect activity to introduce and practice beginning mapping.Audio is included on all slides in this unit.Here's what's included in this deck:Audio included for definitions, instructions, sentencesDifferent uses of mapsCardinal directions on a compass roseUsing directions on a mapUsing a map key activit
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1st - 2nd
Candy Cane Day Holiday Christmas Activities
Are you trying to find a way to keep your student's engaged and learning with all of the holiday excitement? Themed days may be just for you. During Candy Cane Day, you can read your choice of suggested Candy Cane stories and complete the reading comprehension activities included. There is a letter to send home, a banner, craft activities, taste tasting, a science experiment and more. You could run centers for the day or complete the activities together. The choices are endless. There is a pol
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Winter & Holiday Christmas Theme Day Activities 12 Days of Christmas
BUNDLED September Unique Learning Systems Task Boxes- Unit 1 Government
**Save 40%** Need extra independent tasks to pair with Unique Learning System (ULS) lessons? I’ve got you covered! These interactive independent task boxes & work stations use Symbolstix images to coordinate with the Unique Learning System (ULS) September Unit 1--Government Rules & Laws. **monthly digital versions coming soon!**This file includes:* addition task cards (1-10) with worksheet* subtraction task cards (1-10) with worksheet * tens frames 1-10* tens frames to 1-20* tens frames
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PreK - 12th
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Les communautés du monde (Grade 2 Ontario FRENCH Social Studies)
This FRENCH workbook covers the Grade 2 Global Communities unit in the NEW 2023 Ontario Social Studies curriculum (People and Environments).Ce cahier d'exercices couvre l'unité Les communautés du monde de la 2e année du programme d'études sociales de l'Ontario 2023 (Communauté et environnement).It covers various topics such as map skills, continents, oceans, and the equator. It further explores Canada, comparing climate, wildlife, natural features, homes, and recreation. It includes information
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2nd
Also included in: MEGA BUNDLE: Grade 2 Ontario FRENCH Social Studies Full Units
Hot Chocolate Day Holiday Activities
Are you trying to find a way to keep your student's engaged and learning with all of the holiday excitement? Themed days may be just for you. During Hot Chocolate Day, you can read Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate to Stay Warm? and complete the fun comprehension activities included. There is a letter to send home, hot chocolate stand ideas and banner. You could run centers for the day or complete the activities in whole group. The choices are endless! There is a hot chocolate mug craft activity, wr
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Winter & Holiday Christmas Theme Day Activities 12 Days of Christmas
Elf Day Holiday Christmas Activities
Are you trying to find a way to keep your student's engaged and learning with all of the holiday excitement? Themed days may be just for you. During Elf Day, you can read your choice of suggested Elf stories and complete the reading comprehension activities included. There is a letter to send home, a special snack, a door banner and photo booth ideas. You could run centers for the day or complete the activities together. The choices are endless. There are two elf craft activities, writing activi
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Winter & Holiday Christmas Theme Day Activities 12 Days of Christmas
Christmas Build a Scene | Boom Cards™
Use this Christmas BUILD A SCENE for fun or reinforcement of any skill! I've used it to work on 1) pronouns 2) following directions 3) positional/spatial concepts 4) telling narratives 5) answering questions about the scene after building 6) sequencing 7) articulation at the connected speech/conversation level 8) vocabulary and 9) assessing articulation and fluency carryover at the conversation level and 10) sparking lots of natural dialogue! I have them perform target tasks to earn their turn t
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PreK - 5th
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Christmas Activities - Christmas Escape Room - Christmas Breakout - Digital
A fantastic, fun Christmas activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out hardcopies. You may wish to provide
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1st - 8th
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Christmas Nonfiction Text Features | Digital Reading Activity | Google Slides™
Let your students have some holiday fun while they use these digital task cards to review 12 nonfiction text features (listed below)! This Christmas-themed sorting activity for Google Slides™ and Google Forms™ has students identify 12 different text features by name through multiple-choice questions. You can choose to assign the included self-grading Google Forms™ Quiz or use the interactive drag-and-drop Google Slides™ version. They are the same content!*Would you like some digital Christmas Mu
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2nd - 4th
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1st and 2nd Grade SOCIAL STUDIES Boom Cards™ BUNDLE Distance Learning
These 1st and 2nd grade SOCIAL STUDIES Boom Cards were made to make reviewing social studies concepts engaging and fun for young students. This bundle includes 12 sets of Boom Cards. These are made with first and second grade students in mind, but you can adapt it to your lessons to review the skills with third graders or to challenge high level kindergartners. Sound files are now included on all resources so that your student can push the speaker icon and have the word/words read to him/her!Ea
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1st - 2nd
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Map Skills Geography Task Cards - 2nd & 3rd Grade Continents Oceans & More
Do your students need a fun way to practice with map skills? These geography task cards are versatile and can be used for games, review, and test prep! This resource includes 2 sets of task cards. One set includes the pictures/questions with no QR codes. The other set includes QR codes - when scanned students see the questions/pictures. This is a fun way to use tablets or chromebooks to play scoot! Several versions of recording sheets are included with and without a word bank. Geography loca
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2nd - 4th
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